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Last week I was having an email conversation with someone I knew years ago in Montreal and have re-connected with on Facebook.

We started off talking about libraries. One thing led to another and libraries led to our shared love of books. Books led to e-books and e-books led to tech and tech led to cursive script, which led to future generations.

Trust me, it made sense. You had to be there.

First she told me about her granddaughter, who’s a junior in University, and all the techie equipment the school expects her to Continue reading →

If you’ve ever wondered just how attached you are to technology, I now know. I was without a computer all weekend. From about 2:00 pm last Friday afternoon until 11:00 a.m. yesterday morning. Whew! It wasn’t easy.

Don’t panic. The doctor’s not for me. It was for my Mac. It had a pretty serious boo-boo. Thought it was a goner, for sure, to tell you the truth. Out of the blue one day it stopped backing up to my external hard drive. Called the tech expert who spent several hours trying to figure out what the problem
was. After several attempts, his diagnosis was a corrupted hard drive.

In most laptops it’s not a huge problem. The hard drive can be replaced. Not so with a Macbook Air. He (techie) suggested I go to the Apple Store for a Continue reading →

When it comes to social media I think most of us are the same. We seem to have a love/hate relationship with it, especially with Facebook. But as frustrated as I may get, I still end up in the same place: Loving how social media keeps us connected.

Those of you who have been reading my blog since the beginning know I spent some time working in the fashion industry, where I handled all the advertising and P.R. for Leo Chevalier, one of Canada’s leading fashion designers. While it was the manufacturer of his collection of women’s dresses and sportswear I actually worked for, and while I did do some work for other lines they carried, he was the focus of most of my attention.

My office was in Leo’s design studio, on a different floor than the rest of the company. We had great space. Leo, his wife and his design assistant shared a HUGE office/studio. In addition to my office, there was another one, as well. Originally it was for the gal who ran his perfume company. But when he closed that down, his fabric buyer moved in. We also had an enormous stock room in the back, which was perfect for all our accessories, samples, Continue reading →

I’m fine with admitting I wasn’t an early adopter. My first computer sat, collecting dust, on a typing table in my office for months and months before I finally gave it a try. Relax, it was 1985. I’m also the first to admit there are days when I’d like to throw my laptop off the balcony.

But all that aside, make no mistake about it. I’m addicted. I could no more live without my computer than fly to the moon. Well, maybe that’s not such a good example any more. Richard Branson’s selling seats already.

Doesn’t matter. I won’t be on that flight. So the example stands. And I won’t be giving up my computer any time soon. Not willingly, anyway.

Which does beg the question, “Why, then, am I bothering to respond to yesterday’s WordPress Daily Continue reading →

No, this isn’t a story about Joan Rivers. In fact, until this very moment, I hadn’t realized I’d stolen her line. “Let’s talk”. Didn’t she used to say that? I don’t think she uses it anymore, so hopefully there’ll be no royalties involved.

I mean it in a totally different context anyway.

My version has to do with yesterday’s WordPress Daily Prompt: The Next Big Thing. The question for us to answer was, “What will the next must-have technological innovation be?”

I suppose it was inevitable. Given my negative technology ions, and all. But why now? Today? This late in the day? After all that work? After all that polishing? Why, why, why????

What am I blathering about?

Well, to put it very mildly, I’m not having a very happy WordPress day! I have been working on today’s blog post since 7:30 this morning. That’s right, I’ve been working on it ALL morning. I saved it a few times, no problem. Ha!! Or so I’d thought.

And then, at precisely 11:51 a.m. I saved it again. So I could preview it, before adding a couple of last thoughts, making a few more edits and publishing it.

So what happened?

The usual. I clicked on “Save Draft”. It started to save. And then, suddenly, it stopped behaving like it always does. Make that ‘did’. The screen went blank. And then a login screen appeared. In the middle of saving my story, I had to login again. I had a really bad feeling. My stomach clenched. My palms twitched. My skin got clammy. My heart skipped a couple of beats.

Nausea overcame me. My head started to pound. Every swear word I’ve ever known, instantly came to mind. I groaned out loud. I moaned out Continue reading →

It’s been two months, since I first had the crazy idea of attempting to write something new, every day, for a year. Sixty days. Sixty stories. Sixty different topics. Six hundred and twenty-one tags. Forty-four thousand, seven hundred nineteen words.

And sixty grande Pike’s to keep me going.

Damn! That’s half a novel’s worth of work. That’s one mother load of a blog. And I’m not even close to being done. Done in, occasionally. But not done. I’ve written on more subjects I could ever have imagined, from aging to atoning. From beauty to books. The Caribbean to cycles. Distractions. Entertainment. And fantasies.

On googling. Health and history. From ignorance to intentions. Joy and love. From mischief to music and naturopathy. Politics and prejudice. Refining to rituals. Continue reading →

Every time I think I’m finally getting the hang of it, there’s some kind of a glitch; and I find myself right back where I started: Confused.

I am speaking, of course, about all things technical. Specifically, anything to do with my computer, my router, my printer, the Internet and social media. And, for the purposes of today’s story, make that the trials and tribulations of blogging. Technologically speaking.

If you’re reading my blog for the first time, you may not yet know that my objective is to post something new, every day, for three hundred and sixty-five days. A year, in other words. Some days I find have a lot of ideas. So I write them all up, save them, and publish them sequentially, each new day. This is really helpful for those days when I know I will be too busy to carve off a few hours, to write a post.

This has never been a problem.

Until yesterday.

I wrote and posted Friday’s story, first thing Friday morning. Just as I was about to shut down my computer and have breakfast, an idea came to me. So I wrote it up and saved it, for yesterday. When I was done, I remembered that there was something I wanted to check on LinkedIn. Once there, I noticed that the post I had